Japanese media: "Japan-China Friendship Parliamentary League" plans to visit China in late August
2024-08-12
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Our special correspondent Yan Yan
Kyodo News reported on the 10th that according to multiple sources, the cross-party Japan-China Friendship Parliamentarians' League plans to visit China in late August and is currently coordinating specific matters. The report said: "This move aims to promote intergovernmental dialogue to resolve the various problems that have accumulated between Japan and China through parliamentary diplomacy."
Japanese media reported that former LDP Secretary-General Nikai Toshihiro, who serves as the president of the alliance, and LDP Election Strategy Committee Chairwoman Obuchi Yuko, who serves as the director of the secretariat, are expected to participate in the visit. According to Kyodo News, the Japanese side is considering raising issues such as the restoration of visa exemption measures for Japanese short-term stays in China during the talks.
Recently, many Japanese political officials have visited China or are planning to visit China. Kyodo News reported that Japan's Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Keizo Takemi and LDP General Affairs Chairman Hiroyuki Moriyama visited Beijing in July, which was their first visit to China in six years. Japan's Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Banri Kaieda also visited China in July. He said in Beijing that the Japanese House of Representatives is willing to strengthen exchanges with the National People's Congress of China. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported that the LDP is also exploring the early resumption of the "China-Japan ruling party exchange mechanism" that was interrupted after 2018. LDP Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi met with Liu Jianchao, Minister of the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee, in Tokyo at the end of May, and both sides agreed to restart the ruling party exchange mechanism.
"Japan has used parliamentary diplomacy as a foothold to rebuild channels for dialogue with China." The Nihon Keizai Shimbun said that after the COVID-19 pandemic and the discharge of contaminated water from Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea, Sino-Japanese parliamentary diplomacy has gradually decreased. Liberal Democratic Party members in charge of diplomacy said that the channels for dialogue between Japan and China are narrow and it is difficult to conduct crisis management. In addition, Japanese media are also worried about how to cultivate successors to Nikai Toshihiro and other China-communication matchmakers. After Japan discharged contaminated water into the sea last year, Japanese media revealed that Prime Minister Kishida Fumio once asked Nikai Toshihiro, who has a lot of connections in China, to visit China. ▲#Deep Good Articles Project#
